The Legal Intern will support the Legal team with legal research, contract administration, document management, compliance support, and special projects. This internship provides hands-on experience with corporate legal matters, commercial agreements, governance, regulatory requirements, and business operations. The intern will collaborate with internal teams and external partners while contributing to initiatives that support informed decision-making, risk management, compliance, and efficient legal operations.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Legal Research & Analysis
- Conduct legal and business research on statutes, regulations, industry requirements, and emerging issues.
- Assist with summarizing research findings, legal developments, and business considerations for attorney review.
- Support preparation of legal memoranda, presentations, reports, and leadership updates.
- Help monitor assigned legal and regulatory developments that may affect business operations.
- Maintain accurate research files, source materials, and supporting documentation.
Contract & Document Support
- Assist with organizing, reviewing, and tracking contracts, amendments, confidentiality agreements, and related documents.
- Support contract intake, routing, signature, renewal, and document-retention processes.
- Help maintain contract trackers, templates, clause libraries, and version-control records.
- Review documents for completeness, consistency, formatting, and required supporting information.
- Coordinate follow-up on open items, approvals, deadlines, and document requests.
Compliance & Legal Operations
Assist with compliance reviews, policy updates, training materials, and documentation requests.
- Support corporate governance, licensing, records management, and audit-related activities, as assigned.
- Help organize legal matters, correspondence, invoices, and electronic files in accordance with department standards.
- Assist with data collection and reporting for legal operations and risk-management initiatives.
- Protect confidential, privileged, and sensitive business information.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Special Projects
Collaborate with Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Business Development, Procurement, Information Technology, and other departments on legal matters and business initiatives.
- Assist with process-improvement projects and the development of standardized legal tools and resources.
- Support due diligence, information requests, special projects, and strategic initiatives.
- Prepare presentations, summaries, and recommendations for attorney or management review.
- Create and update user guides, job aids, process documentation, and legal department templates.
TYPICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a hybrid work environment.
- Strong legal research, analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Ability to review complex information, identify relevant issues, and communicate findings clearly and objectively.
- Working knowledge of legal research, contracts, corporate law, compliance, governance, or legal operations concepts.
- Demonstrated sound judgment, discretion, flexibility, and the ability to adapt positively to changing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy, organization, proofreading, and follow-through.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, protect privileged and confidential information, and meet firm deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with attorneys, internal teams, clients, vendors, and other business partners.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:
- Legal Age: 18 Years
- Currently enrolled in an accredited undergraduate or law school program with a minimum 2.5 GPA.
- Pursuing a degree in Law, Legal Studies, Political Science, Business Administration, Criminal Justice, Public Policy, or a related field.
- Relevant coursework, legal research, writing experience, campus leadership, or prior internship experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with legal research databases, contract-management systems, document-management tools, or compliance applications is a plus.
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